The Takedown

DERPY DERP!  THIS TAKEDOWN IS SOLD OUT!

HUNGEE?  >>> TICKETS HERE TO EAT ALLLL THE BACON! <<<

ATTN COOKS: ALL SPOTS TAKEN! EMAIL ME to get on the wait list- or the mailing list so you can find out about upcoming opportunities to compete!

Oct 14 2PM at The Bell House!

The Brooklyn Bacon Takedown rips through another stankulous world tour (Austin! Denver! Boston! San Francisco! Boston! Chicago!) to come to rest, home here in Brooklyn! This is the 4th Annual time round for a bacon TD sponsored by Hormel Black Label Bacon– a party that’s been warping our expectations since 2009! 20 of NYCs finest local homecooks get down with their most funnest bacon-crazed ideas.

For those that find the taste of bacon astonishing, and can’t wait to mangez vouz (20 bacon recipes) – tickets are a mere $15!!!  TIX LINK UP SOON

Hey you guys I can’t wait to party super a lot with you xoxo -Matt Timms

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

The third and final stop of the Ice Cream and Hot Sauce tour ends where hot sauce and ice cream are done best.  And local home cooks have the gumption!!! For a mere $5, enjoy their insane inventions of insanity, in both catagories at this palate-torturing megahate fest.  Ice Cream and Hot Sauce are the chocolate and peanutbutter of idiots everywhere!  Find out why!  (To my way of thinking, the ice cream will soothe any horrible pain you may experience from the SF burn sauces you will choke on…) You’re welcome for this awesomely perfect idea, SFers!  I can’t wait!

OCT 7 at Public Works! 2PM!  (Tickets available HERE! EVENT IS OVER 21!)

CALL FOR COOKS!  Got a fine-ass hot sauce?  A delectable ice cream?  Submit your recipe in either category!!! There’s tons of prizes!!! SPOTS ARE NOW OPEN!!! EMAIL ME to compete!!!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Oh BOYOOYOY!!

Portland!  The Ice Cream and Hot Sauce Takedown is trundling through your town, and threatens to ruin your life! (Because after this, what could possibly be as rad?  Nothing. Nothing!!!!) September 30 2PM-4PM at The Goodfoot, feast, melt and scream over a variety of local hot homemade hot sauces!  And then… enjoy the perfect salve: a whole ton of homemade ice creams! (there’s a science to this: the coldness, sugariness and base-ness of ice cream will cool your involuntary capsicum crying…) Then VOTE on the yummiest in both catagories!!!

CALL FOR COOKS! SPOTS ARE OPEN – BRING YOUR CHILLIEST ICE CREAM OR YOUR SCARIEST HOT SAUCE!!! EMAIL ME TO COMPETE!

Tickets are $15 – GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!!!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

True story: What happens when you live in Brooklyn, but your heart is in Chicago?  Thanks for asking! Well,  I typically like to make love to my own heart in the center of the dance floor at Lincoln Hall, with all the Bacontestants cheering and slapping hi fives. And then also I’m president of the whole United States and I decree from this day forth bacon is the only thing allowed, and all girls get to kiss me. After a good bacon takedown, my dreams are always this true, and prescient!

Thanks so much to Hormel Black Label Bacon for this tour, which is about to skip on in to its final destination, Brooklyn, Oct 14!  Thanks MOST IMPORTANTLY to all the fine-ass contestants, for they are the life blood of this rad event…  In fact, why don’t we meet them?  Here, after the jump, is all the recipes and the winners of this year’s awesomest 3rd Annual Chicago Bacon Takedown!!!

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Remember when I said last year was the best ever Chicago Bacon Takedown?  I fibbed. This one, the 3rd Annual, will be, pinky swear, the badddest rogue gallery of bacon crimes you will ever see.  J’accuse!

September 16, NOON at Lincoln Hall

This year, 20 Chicago locals are each given 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon. What they do with it, at this point, we can only guess- but check out last year’s concoctions, and assume the worst…

TICKETS HERE SOON!!! WATCH THIS SPACE!

CALL FOR COOKS! There’s still 2 spots still open for those who have the iron to compete for amazing cookware (Le Creuset!  Analon!  Wusthof!) and even a year’s supply of bacon!!! EMAIL ME TO COMPETE!

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PRIZE SPONSORS

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Here is an artist’s (my) rendition of the horrific things that happened at The Armory in Somerville, that terrible Sunday, August 26 2012- when 10 local hot sauces and 10 local ice creams CLASHED IN UNHOLY MATRIMONY!

It was just like this only even SCARIER!  Boston, this was supposed to be fun and innocent!  Instead, you melted everyone’s faces off and icecreamed bloody murder!!!

Thanks so much to JP Licks and Batch ice creams and Alex’s Ugly Sauce for judging the ice creams and hot sauces!!!  So cool of you guys to hand out samples of your excellence, and donate prizes to boot!!! And the prizes!!!  Oh MAN do I love the good people at Cuisinart, Microplane, Wusthof and Jarlsberg, Anolon!

The homecooks of Boston never fail to rule- and from the bottom of my stinky heart, I love you guys. You are all very, very cool.  AFTER THE JUMP, here’s the recipes, and a list of winners!!!! Continue reading →

August 26 2PM at The Armory in Somerville!

$15 TRY ALL THE ICE CREAMS AND HOT SAUCES!  VOTE ON THE YUMMIEST! TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE!

You guys, I had this super smart idea: this summer, the agony and the ecstasy ! The churn and the burn! I’m going to torture the crap out of you, and then closed-eyes hug you like I mean it. Dudes, what’s hotter than ice cream?  And what’s cooler than hot sauce???  The ICAHSTD begs the answers from local hot sauce makers, and then also local ice cream makers…  you’re invited to try 10-15 hot sauces AND THEN put out the fire with 10-15 ice creams- and vote on both, separately!

I’m still accepting entries!!!  If you have the mind-meltingest hot sauce, or the brain-punchingest ice cream, EMAIL ME TO COMPETE! Tons of prizes, tons of brilliantly smart ideas…

LOCAL ICE CREAM AND HOT SAUCE SPONSORS (and JUDGES):

Prize Sponsors:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

What a fiendishly rad expose of the possibilities of bacon.  SF has always been a majorly fun food stop.  Everyone talks about the restaurants and chefs, but here’s the Takedown to once again prove that the average joe’s walking the streets over there are actually not so average!!!!  In fact, let’s burn every restaurant down!!! Trust me, it won’t be anarchy.  There’s way too much yummy talent in this town-  a new cooking culture will form, of good old fashioned home cooks with boundless energy and rad strength.  THANK YOU COOKS!!!

And thank you to my sponsor Hormel Black Label Bacon for letting this thing tour the planet and give endless amounts of bacon to competitors wherever we go!!  And Public Works, for being a fantastic venue for this madness to ensue…

Check out this incredibly extensive and caring article by Judge Josh Leskar!  That dude really cares, and gave his thoughts on all the recipes!!! Thanks for being the best judge ever, Josh!!!

AFTER THE JUMP all the winners and recipes! Continue reading →

A special big big thank you to the Ice Creamers of Brooklyn, making 2 gallons each to tame a heat wave and bring joy and pizzazz to the Bell House!  You guys are infinitely cooler than your average Brooklynite.    Thanks also to Dream Scoops, Adirondack Creamery, Laboratorio del Gelato and Blue Marble for coming out, handing out huge samples around the place, and judging the ice cream efforts!!!

See the GORGEOUS ICE CREAM SHOTS up at Serious Eats!!!

In serious news: there was a MUSHROOM ICE CREAM!!! Sounds gross!  Wasn’t!!!! In fact, there wasn’t a gross ice cream in the whole place-  ask anybody!!!  Here after the jump is a list of all the competitors- and the Takedown Ice Cream champs of 2012!!!! Continue reading →

Boston has the most colleges and universities in the country. The home of MIT and Harvard to name only 2. They invented beans, and chowder.  Arguably, one might say this is totally the smartest city.  Which explains why 300 of their finest power genius mind lords  show up to the Armory for the Boston Bacon Takedown, just to fill their bellies with all-you-can-eat bacon recipes, until they were officially happysick!!

So, wow! Boston, right?  You guys finally did the thing that I’ve been dreaming of for years now, and you did it wicked good.  Bacon. Corn. Dogs.  I’m not lying, I’ve wanted to see bacon corn dogs since I started doing Bacon Takedowns in 2009, and now that dream is SO REAL!

Thanks to Boston cooks, who are the goodest people!  Thanks to The Armory, which, turns out, is way better than any Boston venue.  Great staff, awesome bar, and it’s in happy Somerville, not stinky downtown. And thanks to my sponosr Hormel Black Label Bacon– for making this, the 3rd leg of the Bacon Takedown tour so succesful…  what a rad ride!!!

AFTER THE JUMP all the recipes and the winners!!! Continue reading →